Second suspect in reporter’s slaying, arrested in Orizaba, Veracruz

Veracruz state prosecutor Luis Ángel Bravo Contreras announced the arrest in the city of Orizaba of a man identified only as a local leader of the Zetas drug gang.

The suspect faces prosecution for crimes including the killing of Anabel Flores Salazar, who was a crime reporter for a newspaper in Orizaba. She was kidnapped by gunmen Feb. 8 and found dead in neighboring Puebla state the next day.

A state prosecutors’ statement late Wednesday said authorities previously arrested another suspect in the killing on May 4.

At least 17 journalists have been slain in Veracruz since late 2010 and others have disappeared.

Anabel Flores, a journalist from Veracruz was found dead on kilometer 580 of the road from Cuacnopalan to Oaxaca, in the State of Puebla, in central Mexico. She had been abducted by armed men who stormed her house, early morning on February 9th